Introduction (complete text online)
| Author | Selection Title |
| Lucy Mack Smith | Young Joseph's Illness |
| Joseph Smith, Jr. | Joseph Smith Tells His Own Story |
| B. H. Roberts | The Missouri Persecutions |
| Thomas L. Kane | The Mormons |
| Leonard J. Arrington | The First Year in the Valley |
| James E. Talmage | The Death and Burial of Jesus Christ |
| Author | Selection Title |
| Parley P. Pratt | From The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt |
| John Taylor | The Martyrdom |
| Daniel W. Jones | Some Early Mormon "Fast Days" |
| S. A. Kenner | Indian Episode of Early Days |
| Florence A. Merriam Bailey | Grandma |
| Karl G. Maeser | How I Became a "Mormon" |
| Juanita Brooks | Home Reminiscences of Uncle Will Brooks |
| Author | Selection Title |
| Joseph Smith | To Emma Smith |
| Joseph Smith | To Emma Smith |
| Joseph Smith | To W. W. Phelps |
| Brigham Young | To the Brethren Returning from Missions |
| Brigham Young | Brigham Young's Last Will and Testament |
| Ursulia B. Hascall, Irene Hascall Pomeroy | The Hascall-Pomeroy Correspondence |
| Ellen Spencer Clawson | To Ellen Pratt McGary |
| Author | Selection Title |
| Hosea Stout | Crossing the Plains |
| William Clayton | Arriving in Zion |
| Mary Goble Pay | Death Strikes the Hand Cart Company |
| Priddy Meeks | Historical Chips |
| Joseph Smith Black | Cohabitation: The Day of the U.S. Marshal |
| Author | Selection Title |
| Joseph Smith | The King Follett Discourse |
| Brigham Young | Conference Remarks on Science and Religion |
| Orson Pratt | Discourse on the Plan of Salvation |
| J. Golden Kimball | What is a "Good Man"? |
| B.H. Roberts | Protest Against the Science-thought of "A Dying Universe" and No Immortality for Man: The Mission of the Church of the New Dispensation |
| Gordon B. Hinckley | The True Strength of the Church |
| Author | Selection Title |
| Orson F. Whitney | Home Literature |
| William Mulder | Mormonism and Literature |
| Parley A. Christensen | Mormonism: An Eternal Quest |
| Robert K. Thomas | A Literary Critic Looks at the Book of Mormon |
| Hugh Nibley | Educating the Saints--A Brigham Young Mosaic |
| Truman G. Madsen | Human Anguish and Divine Love |
| Edward Geary | Goodbye to Poplarhaven |
| Author | Selection Title |
| S. Dilworth Young | The Brothers: June 24, 1844 |
| Vesta Pierce Crawford | The Fable of the Rose |
| Christie Lund Coles | Modern Christmas |
| Veneta L. Nielsen | My Father Tamed Wild Horses |
| Arthur Henry King | On This Gray and Silver Day Hot Weather in Tucson |
| Edward L. Hart | To Utah The Gentle Way: (To President David O. McKay) |
| Marden J. Clark | Lines on a Line |
| Lael W. Hill | The Pagans |
| May Swenson | The Centaur Any Object |
| Clinton F. Larsen | A Letter from Israel Whiton, 1851 Advent The Witness |
| Max Golightly | Widow Spring |
| R. Paul Cracroft | The Martyrdom |
| Emma Lou Thayne | Pruning the Sage Heretic First Loss Sunday School Picture |
| John Sterling Harris | The Assassination of Emma Gray Hay Derrick |
| David L. Wright | A Gathering of Saints |
| Thomas Asplund | The Heart of My Father |
| Harrison Davis | From the Land of Song |
| Nolyn Hardy | Today's Dignitary |
| Marilyn McMeen Miller | News Express |
| R. A. Christmas | At Mountain Meadows: for Juanita Brooks |
| Carol Lynn Pearson | To the Mormon Now Blessed With Roses Instead of Tar
and Feathers Guilt Ritual To an Atheist |
| Charis Southwell | Complete Poems online, including "Reformation" "Waking" |
| Clifton Holt Jolley | Heritage |
| Dennis Drake | To Jacob Hamblin (1819-1886) |
| Dennis Marden Clark | Statement before the World
Expands Meadow A Name and a Blessing |
| Helen Walker Jones | Cornerstone (Tracting in New Mexico) |
| Linda Sillitoe | Trip Toward Prayer |
| Ann Doty | Sterling and Jenny |
| Anonymous | Give, Said the Little Stream |
| Naomi W. Randall | I Am a Child of God |
| Author | Selection Title |
| Parley P. Pratt | A Dialogue Between Joseph Smith and the Devil |
| Josephine Spencer | A Trial of Hearts |
| Nephi Anderson | Lester Amsden's Love |
| Virginia Sorensen | The Darling Lady |
| Eileen G. Kump | The Willows |
| Douglas H. Thayer | Under the Cottonwoods |
| Donald R. Marshall | The Week-End |
| Author | Selection Title |
| Nephi Anderson | From Marcus King, Mormon |
| Vardis Fisher | From Children of God |
| Maurine Whipple | From The Giant Joshua |
| Author | Selection Title |
| Clinton F. Larson | The Mantle of the Prophet |
| Martin L. Kelly | And They Shall Be Gathered |
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